David Van Tieghem
Safety In Numbers (LP)
FormatLPLabelPrivate MusicGenreExperimental
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condition (record/cover): NM / EX
Van Tieghem's second solo LP after These Things Happen (Warner Bros., 1984), the first of two for Peter Baumann's short-lived Private Music label (the same imprint that put out Suzanne Vega's Days of Open Hand and a dozen Tangerine Dream-adjacent records). The percussionist had built his reputation through Steve Reich's ensemble (the Drumming and Mallet Instruments sessions), Robert Ashley's Perfect Lives, Laurie Anderson's touring band, and Peter Gordon's Love of Life Orchestra.
Recorded at Battery Sound and Skyline Studios in New York, co-produced with Roma Baran (long-time Laurie Anderson collaborator). The instrumentation reads like a Fairlight enthusiast's wish-list (Fairlight CMI IIx and III, Akai S900, DX7, Korg Poly-800, Juno-60, Voyetra Eight, Linn LM-1, E-mu SP-12) cross-fertilised with Van Tieghem's percussion vocabulary of struck metal ashtrays, plastic milk bottles, Suzuki springs, Japanese stones. Ryuichi Sakamoto plays computer synthesizer parts on two tracks (recorded in Tokyo and shipped to New York on floppy disk); Tony Levin plays Chapman Stick on Night of the Cold Noses.
Release notes
Digitall recorded and digitalls mastered Recorded at Battery Sound, New York City Mixing and additional recording at Skyline Studios, NYC Mastered at Masterdisk, NYC Parabolic gamelan designed and built [at] Sonic Architecture Ryuichi Sakamoto's overdubs were originally created on the NEC PC-9801 computer with RCP-PC98 Come On Music software at Avic Studio, Tokyo, Japan. The sounds and sequences were digitally transferred to various floppy disks and sent to Skyline Studios, NYC, where…
| A1 | Galaxy | 5:06 | |
| A2 | Thunder Lizard | 5:00 | |
| A3 | Crystals | 5:04 | |
| A4 | Night Of The Cold Noses | 5:10 | |
| A5 | Future | 4:54 | |
| B6 | All Safe | 5:49 | |
| B7 | Skeleton Key | 4:23 | |
| B8 | Clear | 4:31 | |
| B9 | Deep Sky | 2:43 | |
| B10 | A Wing And A Prayer | 3:34 |
- Howard Sochurek
- Artwork [Front Cover Color Images Processing By]
- David Van Tieghem
- Co-producer, Drums, Synthesizer [Fairlight CMI IIx And Series III, Akai S900, Yamaha DX7 And DX100, Korg Poly-800, Roland Juno-60 And Octapads, Suzuki Musical Spring, Voyetra Eight, Linn LM-1, E.Mu SP-12], Marimba, Percussion [Metal Ashtrays, Plastic Milk Bottle, Scrap Metal, Japanese Stones, Finger Claps, Plastic Mailing Tube, Aluminium Soda Cans, Corrugated Plastic Hose, Lamp Parts, Plastic Sticks], Cymbal [Chinese Cymbals, Bowed Cymbal], Gong [Chinese Gongs], Piano, Clavinet [Hohner], Drum [Wooden Tongue, Ceramic Drums], Computer [Macintosh], Sequenced By [Opcode Sequencer], Bells, Toy [Jingle Ball, Ray Gun], Electronics [Processed Radio And Television Signals], Voice, Written-By
- Roma Baran
- Co-producer
- Jo Bonney
- Design Concept [Cover Concept], Design
- Laura Demme
- Design Concept [Cover Concept], Design
- Derek Davis
- Engineer [Assistant, Battery]
- Barbara DeMauro
- Engineer [Assistant, Skyline]
- Knut Bohn
- Engineer [Assistant, Skyline]
- Leanne Ungar
- Mixed By [Mixing], Recorded By [Additional Recording]
- Paula Court
- Photography By [Graphics]
- Deborah Feingold
- Photography By [Portrait Photo By]
- Clive Smith
- Programmed By [Fairlight Programming Assistance]
- Eric Liljestrand
- Programmed By [Fairlight Programming Assistance], Recorded By
